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Connecticut Innovations, Inc (CI) is venture capital firm founded in 1989. The firm is headquartered in Rocky Hill, Connecticut.

PNT Data Corp. provides information logistics for healthcare management. It offers services for healthcare management, enabling health plans, providers, health systems and vendors to securely manage and optimize the flow of healthcare information. The firm provides a fully developed, deployed and managed cloud communications platform with flexible and adaptive toolkits that provide solutions that enable healthcare entities to connect and communicate information securely, reliably and to collaborate across the spectrum of health information. It also supports health system, revenue cycle, billing services and clearinghouse vendors. The company was founded by George Allen DeGraw in 2002 and is headquartered in Rocky Hill, CT.

NovaTract Surgical, Inc. manufactures and develops laparoscopic medical devices. It offers NovaTract, a laparoscopic retractor that addresses the need to increase visibility (by using fewer instruments), improves tissue manipulations, provides angle of retraction modifications and reduces the number of ports and incisions. The firm also offers its intra-abdominal retraction system for use in general, colorectal, gynecology, urology, urogynecology, bariatric, and robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery applications. The company was founded by Eleanor L. Tandler in April 2010 and is headquartered in Agoura Hills, CA.

Fintron LLC engages in the provision of banking, and financial services. It also provides financial freedom and security for the digital generation through better education, affordable financial products, and philanthropic give-back programs. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Westport, CT.

Invest Michigan (Invest Michigan) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014. The firm is headquartered in Northville, Michigan.

Aeromics, Inc. operates as a preclinical company that develops clinical candidate targeting a molecular water channel for the treatment of cerebral edema (brain swelling) in stroke. It offers AER-271, a drug candidate that blocks aquaporin-4 (AQP4), the molecular water channel found at the blood-brain barrier and controls of cerebral edema in models for ischemic stroke, cardiac arrest, and water toxicity and blocks edema in models of cardiac ischemia and transplant. The company was founded by Marc F. Pelletier and Walter F. Boron in 2008 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

OdinText, Inc. provides plug and play intelligence tools for ecommerce merchants and disruptor brands to better understand their customers and businesses. The company was founded by Andy Greenwalt and Tom H. C. Anderson in 2015 and is headquartered in Fairfield, CT.

DiA Imaging Analysis Ltd. operates as an imaging processing software company. It technology is based on a platform of proprietary algorithms that enable automatic detection of the heart’s ventricle walls borders. The firm’s platform enables the evaluation of echo images to be fully automated. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Be'er Sheva, Israel.

Device42, Inc. engages in the provision of data center infrastructure management software solutions. Its products include Device42 DCIM/ CMBD, IT for operations, and for transformation. The company was founded by Rajneesh Jalan and Steve Shwartz in 2010 and is headquartered in West Haven, CT.

Covr Financial Technologies LLC operates digital personal insurance platform. It digital platform provides way to research, compare, shop for and buy insurance from providers. The company was founded by Todd Ruplinger in 2013 and is headquartered in Boise, ID.

Rellevate, Inc. is a financial services company that offers a full-featured digital account to manage day-to-day finances. The company is based in Stamford, CT. Rellevate was founded by Stewart A. Stockdale, Mark Forster, and Greg Schneider, and Stewart A. Stockdale has been the CEO since incorporation. The company is dedicated to empowering consumers to access, move, and use their money anytime, anywhere. Rellevate is a leader and one of the fastest-growing fintech companies in the employer and public sector disbursement industry.

Iridia, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. It offers research and development services. The company was founded by James P. Linton in 2016 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

Aureus Analytics Ltd. provides big data analytics platform for understanding customers, business risks and operational efficiencies in insurance, banking and healthcare sectors. It offers statistical and analytical platform that allows business users and analysts to work with the data than on the data. The company was founded by Nitin Purohit, Anurag Shah and Ashish Tanna in 2012 and is headquartered in Singapore.

Aventri, Inc. provides software for cloud-based analytics for end to end event management and venue sourcing. It offers event management software, meetings management, mobile events app, venue sourcing, survey solutions, and email marketing. The firm serves education, financial services, technology, media, automotive, and airlines sectors. The company was founded by Leonora Valvo in 1998 and is headquartered in Norwalk, CT.

Payveris LLC provides online and mobile payment solutions. It also offers full service online bill pay and interbank transfer solutions for financial institutions and service providers. The company was founded by Francis P. Duggan and Louis Hernandez Jr. and is headquartered in Cromwell, CT.

ActualMeds Corp. provides web-based solutions to facilitate patient data collection and automate coordination. It offers real-time comprehensive medication management solutions and medication reconciliation for health plans, accountable care organizations, patient centered medical homes and pharmacy benefit managers. The firm provides medication management in patients with chronic diseases such as hypertension, congestive heart failure and diabetes and older adult patients who typically have multiple chronic conditions and the most complex therapeutic regimens. The company was founded by Patricia S. Meisner, Anne Marie Biernacki and Patricia J. Neafsey in February 2009 and is headquartered in East Hartford, CT.

Gemshelf, Inc. operates as a software services company that works at the intersection of information problems and software solutions. It offers GemShelf, a centralized knowledge base for all content, including documents, videos, Web links, articles, photos, books, and directories of people and organizations. The company was founded by Sedarius Tekara Perrotta and Colin Kennedy in 2014 and is headquartered in Stamford, CT.

Cyber SecBI Ltd. provides cyber security solutions. The firm specializes in security operations centre soc, investigation, cyber security, start up and orchestration. The company was founded by Ziv Ambar, Doron Davidson, and Alex Vaystikh in 2014 and is headquartered in Beer Sheva, Israel.

Paygilant Ltd. develops an electronic payments platform. Its include ecommerce, digital wallet providers, crypto wallets and financial institutions. The company was founded by Nachshon Margaliot, Ori Einhorn and Yuval Raz and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Holisto Ltd. engages in the provision of hotel reservation services. It offers online hotel selection and reservation. The company was founded by Eran Shust and Avi Wortzel in 2015 and is headquartered in Rishon LeZion, Israel.

Part of Speedus Corp., Zargis Medical, Inc. develops medical equipment. The company is based in Princeton, NJ.

I-Bankers Securities, Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in Santa Monica, California that was founded in 1996. I-Bankers provides a full array of trading and execution services for their clients. Their focus is to provide small-cap issuers access the capital markets while they enable institutional investors to gain access to choice small-cap investments. Their clients include institutions, private bankers and high-net worth individuals. The firm also manages, underwrites and distributes “blank check” or “SPAC” offerings.

Torigen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. engages in the provision of veterinary cancer care solutions for animals. It offers surgical and personalized vaccines. The company was founded by Ashley Kalinauskas in 2013 and is headquartered in Farmington, CT.

Continuity Engine, Inc. provides regulatory technology solutions that automate compliance management for financial institutions. The company offers regulatory expertise and cloud technology to reduce regulatory burden and mitigate compliance risk at a fraction of the cost. Its solutions are designed to automate all aspects of compliance management, from interpretation of regulatory issuances through intuitive task delegation, vendor management, and board reporting. The company was founded by Andrew Ivar Greenawalt, Michael R. Jennings, and Jim Kisch in 2008 and is headquartered in New Haven, CT.

CyVek, Inc. engages in the development of a novel, platform technology for measuring analytes in biological samples. It is a biotechnology company dedicated to the advancement of healthcare by empowering researchers and clinicians with a disruptive technology for performing multi-analyte immunoassays. The firm is a versatile platform that can be quickly and easily configured for diverse applications such as rapid diagnostic tests, multi-sample multi-analyte tests, or routine ELISA-like tests, for use in both research and clinical settings. The company offers an breadth of applications, from life science research to drug discovery, personalized medicine, diagnostics, and point-of-care testing. CyVek was founded by Per J. Hellsund, Rajiv Pandey and Marty Andrew Putnam in 2010 and is headquartered in Wallingford, CT.

CuraGen Corp. develops protein, antibody and small molecule pharmaceutical products. The firm focuses on the development of CR011-vcMMAE, a Phase II clinical trial drug for the treatment of patients with metastatic melanoma and breast cancer. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Branford, CT.

454 Life Sciences Corp. engages in the provision of medical testing services to determine the nucleotide sequence of whole genomes. The company was founded by Jonathan M. Rothberg in 2000 and is headquartered in Branford, CT.

Retail Optimization, Inc. provides merchandising optimization software solutions. Its software platform enables proprietary optimization technology based on calculating the incremental marginal contribution of each individual SKU integrating POS data, rest-of-market data, loyalty data, corporate strategies, shopper insights, and consumer demand. The company was founded by Vaughn D. Roller in 2006 and is headquartered in Gloucester, MA.

Thetis Pharmaceuticals LLC is a biopharmaceutical company. It improves the lives of patients suffering from gastrointestinal diseases. The company’s proprietary HEALER™ technology platform enables the pharmaceutical development of bioactive lipids, including resolving and other fatty acids, that actively regulate inflammation resolution and tissue repair. Its technologies are pro-resolving lipids and intellectual property. The company was founded by Frank C. Sciavolino, Banavara L. Mylari and Gary Mathias in 2011 and is headquartered in Southport, CT.

DUSA Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is an integrated dermatology pharmaceutical company, which develops and markets Levulan Photodynamic Therapy technology platform for the prevention and treatment of dermatological skin conditions. Its products include levulan kerastick, BLU-U and clindareach. The company was founded by D. Geoffrey Shulman on February 21, 1991 and is headquartered in Wilmington, MA.

ZetrOZ, Inc. develops and manufactures medical devices. It specializes in non-invasive medical devices to accelerate tissue healing and relieve pain for chronic musculoskeletal conditions. The firm's products include sam Global Health, sam Sport and UltrOZ Elite. It also develops wearable bioelectronic devices for the delivery of sustained acoustic medicine. The company was founded in January 2009 by JoAnne L. Guarino, Leonard Bryant Guffey and George Kenneth Lewis, Jr. and is headquartered in Trumbull, CT.

Summit Therapeutics Ltd. operates as a holding company, which engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of antibiotic medicines. The company seeks to expand its product candidate portfolio through the development of new mechanism and precision antibiotics. Summit Therapeutics was founded by Stephen Graham Davies and Kay Dame Davies in January 2003 and is headquartered in Abingdon, the United Kingdom.